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Interesting. So I would create a separate folder for each game, each with its own "apple2.ini" inside of it? Is that correct?

Hello everyone, I've started working a little on launching computer systems again and got stuck on a specific issue: So one way to autoboot a system is writing an autoboot command into an .ini file that mame can read. However, with some systems, you have to individually type in the rom name in order to boot a game, which means every game needs their individual autoboot command and a systemwide autoboot command does not work. Now I've learned that mame can actually create and read per game .ini files: https://easyemu.mameworld.info/mameguide/config_files/customini.html My problem now is that this seems to work only with arcade games, but not with Software List games. I think the reason for this is the command line used to launch the games from Launchbox. here is an example: If I launch a mame arcade rom (e.g. "1on1gov.zip"), mame will read settings from an .ini named "1on1gov.ini" if one is present --> this works just fine. However, the problem occurs if I launch a software list game (e.g., the apple2 cassette game "3dstarfi.zip") from launchbox using this command line: "apple2 -autoboot_delay 2 -rp \"L:\LaunchBox\Games\Arcade\" -cass \"%romfile%\"" This will only ever create an .ini file called "apple2.ini", but never "3dstarfi.ini". If I create "3dstarfi.ini" manually, Retroarch mame will ignore it. So my question is: Is there a way to (maybe) add something to the command line that will tell Retroarch mame to look for a "3dstarfi.ini" instead of an "apple2.ini"?

Hello everyone, I've posted this thread in the troubleshoot subforum, but unfortunately, nobody replied, yet: I wanted to bring this issue up here, since it concerns my experiences with severe lag / slowdown when using COLORFUL in BigBox. @viking, do you have any idea what could be causing this behavior?

Hello everyone, I've been struggling with something for quite some time now. I experience stutter / lag in COLORFUL BigBox Theme. I've uploaded 2 videos on YouTube showing what I mean. The first one shows BigBox with Critical Zone theme running smoothly, the second one shows the COLORFUL theme lagging when scrolling through platform categories. The same lag occurs when scrolling through platforms as well. I've already posted about this issue a while back in @viking's COLORFUL theme thread, but a solution couldn't be found. I'm hoping that the videos I've linked make my problem clearer. 1. Critical Zone without lag: 2. COLORFUL with lag: Here is what I've already tried to fix this problem without success: setting up a separate Launchbox installation with very few platforms and games. disabling all transition effects force caching images reducing image quality to medium disabling all anti-virus software unplugging all usb devices except mouse and keyboard I don't use MSI Afterburner or any similar software Here are my specs: LaunchBox is installed on a Samsung SSD 860 QVO 2TB CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K, 4300 MHz Ram: 48,0 GB GPU: MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X OS: Windows 10, latest updates, drives up to date I really love the COLORFUL theme and would like to use it more often, but as it stands it's just not practical for me, so I'm hoping someone out there can help me fix this issue. Thanks in advance ? EDIT: I should also mention that the lag in COLORFUL occurs mainly when scrolling through the platform categories for the first time. Once I've scrolled through everything once, there is considerably less lag. But every time re restart BigBox, the lag returns.

Thank you! Super excited for this! ?

What romsets and emulators do you use for computer systems, such as Apple II and AppleIIGS?

Got it. I confused HQ with HD.

OK, got it. Seems like HQ is 640x480. All is well then. Thank you! ?

Got it, thanks. Is there any info on the differences between SQ and HQ videos? All the videosnaps that my Launchbox downloaded from emumovies are 640x480. That doesn't seem like HQ to me...

I have a lifetime membership. How can I access the FTP server?

The video engine is already set to VLC. Are there any settings in VLC which I can tweak? My CPU is Intel Core i7-8700K, 4400 MHz My GPU is MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X I also tried turning all the animations in BigBox off, which didn't help

I'm not sure what you mean by my config being old. Launchbox is up to date. I have 1080p 60hz screen. All the files are stored on a fast SSD drive. So it's not slow. As I said I tried both HD and 4k files. Both are laggy with colorful, but work fine with oder themes. I also tested non colorful videos with the colorful theme, and colorful is still laggy. This indicates once more that the issue is not with the videos.

Hey there, thanks for answering. The Theme is up to date. Animations are at their standard values (I haven't changed the default settings). I've tried both 4K and HD videos. Both are very laggy. I don't think it's the videos. The problem only occurs when I activate COLORFUL theme. If I use just the Colorful videos with a different theme, it runs butter smooth.

Importing 9.000 games all at once may take a few hours for sure. 8 hours seem a bit long to me, but I've never imported this many games for a system with as much metadata and media as the SNES, so it may just be that it really takes this long. I have a no intro 1G1R SNES set. I believe it has just short of 2.000 roms. Importing that and downloading all the media on the LB database as well as emumovies took a very long time for me as well. I'm not sure exactly how long, but I think around 2 hours? I'm really not sure anymore. It's been a while since I have updated the set.

Great work! I'll try it and report back ?

Well, just use any mame version below .221 and it should work.

Haha, yes I found out about that by pure accident. Wanted to show these games to a friend and that's when I found out it didn't work anymore.

Zelda is currently unplayable. It launches, but as soon as you select a level, it slows down extremely and eventually crashes. This happens with recent mame core versions, I think .222. If you use an older version of mame (I tried .215) it works. See also here: https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=7716

I've now tried using a fresh install of Launchbox. Same error. Procedure was 1. install Launchbox --> open Launchbox --> close Launchbox 2. Install Flashpoint with your updated installer (adult games included) 3. Open Launchbox to check if everything was imported correctly --> everything worked fine 4. Reinstall Flashpoint using your updated installer (adult games excluded) 5. Open Launchbox -->error What's strage here is that this time, I've named the Launchbox folder "LaunchBoxTest", but the error message reads "LaunchBox\Data".

Great to hear from you! I've just tried with the new version, but I still get the same errors: I will try using a virgin version of launchbox next.

Hey man, I know it's been long. But I just tried your program again to give you more feedback on the corrupted files that occur when updating the xml files. So what I have done is: 1. import Flashpoint with your program, with no adult games --> works perfectly 2. Open your program again and this time include the adult games. Settings look as follows: 3. The error messages I receive look like the example below. What's weird is the path shown here. It says "\Data\Platform_Name", but shouldn't it say "\Data\platform\plantform_Name"? The xml file at that path obviously does not exist, so I cannot send you any corrupted files... Do you know what to make of this?

Hmm, I just checked my initial post and didn't find too many misspellings. I misspelled "extension" wrong. Sorry about that. I'm not an English native speaker. Also whenever I type in here, the German spell checking is applied, which means everything is underlined red which is really distracting and can lead to some errors being overlooked. But why would you think I am the same person as the user above? They clearly have a setup that they want to share, which is something I am very interested in, because I DON'T have a working setup. I suggest that instead of making pointless accusations, we return to helping each other out with our hobby, which is the whole point of a forum like this. Wouldn't you agree?

I would very much like to review your setup =). I've been struggling with computer systems for some time now. In fact I've recently opened a thread here asking for people's opinions, so this would be really helpful for me. I CAN get most of them running, but there are still some unanswered questions for me.

Hey everyone, Over the last years I've been trying to include computer systems into my LaunchBox setup. I resorted to Mame Software List roms, but there are a few issues with them. So I'd like to know what rom sets and emulators you guys use for the best experience. To my knowledge, there are 2 curated sets for computer systems: Mame software list and TOSEC. Mame has the following pros: - roms are separated by medium (flop, cart, rom, cdrm, ...). This makes it easy to assign different command lines in order to launch different file formats. For example, I can add "Apple II cassettes" and "Apple II 5.25" original disks" as different platforms. This makes updating the set to a newer version of mame easy. - You just need to curate one emulator (mame or mame core in retroarch) - Clones can be skipped with the mame software list importer (available her in these forums) or added as additional apps. The cons of mame are: - Software Lists include not only games, but also a lot of apps which quickly fills up a platform with "junk" you don't need - Many computer systems are not emulated well / a lot of roms don't run well. TOSEC has the following pros: - Each system has subfolders for apps, games, educational content, and so on. This makes it easy to just filter out just the games. - TOSEC games can be made to launch in Mame with a bit of command line fiddling. These are the cons of TOSEC: - There are a lot of duplicate games with different file extensions and there is no good way to my knowledge to make a 1g1r set. - TOSEC does not separate games by medium, but by file extension. In many cases this leads to a lot of folders for many systems, each of which would have to be added as a separate platform if you ever wanted to update the set. E.g. Apple II games have the following folders: Apple II - Games - [A2R].zip Apple II - Games - [DO].zip Apple II - Games - [DSK].zip Apple II - Games - [NIB].zip Apple II - Games - [PO].zip Apple II - Games - [WOZ].zip - you must research which medium the file extensions correspond to (cass, flop, cart ..) in order to be able to run them in Mame. Moreover, not all file extensions are supported by mame. So my questions are: 1. which sets do you use for computer systems? Do you use mame SL, TOSEC or a completely different collection of games? 2. How do you go about adding them into Launchbox in a convenient way? 3. Which emulators do you use for which systems? In which cases is mame the best choice and when do you resort to standalone emulators?

It worked great, thank you! ?